The Killing of Kathleen | M.P. Pellicer

What is the perfect opportunity for a killer, than to find another murderer to blame for their deeds?

Kathleen Kimberly Robinson wasn't identified until November 26, 1977. The 17-year-old had been found in a parking lot not far from a brushy area of the Wilshire district, near the corner of Pickford Street and Curson Avenue. She'd been strangled but not sexually molested.

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The Jockey's Ghost

In 1885, another ghost story rooted in Long Island history made the newspapers.

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In the Unlikeliest Place | M.P. Pellicer

On December 31, 1992, a septic tank company rolled into the property of a home that sat vacant for two years. Reinaldo Ramon Paiz who owned it for decades died in 1990, and his daughter was selling it. The real estate agent advised her to pump the tank in order to make it more attractive to potential buyers since it had not been serviced in at least twenty years, around 1972. Or at least that’s what they thought.

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Red Jack, Saucy Jack, A Jack by Any Other Name | M.P. Pellicer

Well over 100 years since the gory murders committed in the White Chapel district of London, the identity of Jack the Ripper is still in question, and just how many others were masters in their own right of similar, bloody handiwork.

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Born Under Crossed Stars | M.P. Pellicer

What would be the odds that could lose not one, but two of your children to murder? For a family in Kansas the odds were not high enough as two sisters both died at the hands of merciless killers almost twenty years apart.

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